amacfie

Karma: 85

amacfie 5 Dec 2011 14:21 UTC
15 points
on: 2011 Survey Results
So people just got silly with the IQ field again.

amacfie 3 Nov 2011 1:26 UTC
8 points
on: 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
I thought it was nanoweapons, not gray goo, that was the risk of nanotechnology.

amacfie 10 Feb 2014 18:21 UTC
6 points
in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: Baldness
I’d say the benefits of cosmetic surgery can sometimes be sizable.

amacfie 24 Mar 2011 20:38 UTC
6 points
on: Rationality Boot Camp
So does this have anything to do with the Visiting Fellows Program? It isn’t a replacement, is it?

amacfie 31 May 2014 14:34 UTC
5 points
on: Against Open Threads
The clearest way to improve discussions here, which has been called for numerous times, is reorganizing the subreddits and adding a few new ones. So far we haven’t even got a separate subreddit for meetups, which should be uncontroversial, although I hear it is under development. Despite the simplicity of this proposed change, apparently the codebase makes it difficult. How much would it cost to expedite the development, if that’s a possibility, and could we let people donate money directly toward this feature? If it’s too expensive, how about cheap alternative approaches, such as adding a menu with links to a handful of “top-level” tags, at least one of which every new post should be tagged with? .

amacfie 27 Jan 2014 0:18 UTC
5 points
on: Open thread, January 25- February 1
How would you define the word “sexy” in terms of signaling?

Meetup : Ottawa Weekly Monday LessWrong Meetup

amacfie21 Nov 2011 3:51 UTC

4 points

amacfie10 Apr 2014 1:25 UTC

3 points

amacfie 2 Mar 2014 23:19 UTC
3 points
on: Open Thread February 25 - March 3
What do you do when you’re low on mental energy? I have had trouble thinking of anything productive to do when my brain seems to need a break from hard thinking.

amacfie 21 Feb 2014 19:40 UTC
3 points
in reply to: Markas’s comment on: Open Thread for February 18-24 2014
I’ve had success with Mack’s soft silicone earplugs.

amacfie 11 May 2013 5:20 UTC
3 points
in reply to: ChrisH’s comment on: Meetup : LessWrong Ottawa
Should people ask for Chris’s table?

amacfie 17 Apr 2013 3:13 UTC
3 points
in reply to: Qiaochu_Yuan’s comment on: What truths are actually taboo?
Any particular reason why you write “erm” even though (I assume) you don’t have a British accent?

amacfie 31 Jan 2013 17:46 UTC
3 points
in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: Singularity Institute is now Machine Intelligence Research Institute
I was under the impression that this use of the word “machine” was archaic—it was used decades ago for naming things like machine learning, machine translation, and the Association for Computing Machinery. I don’t immediately see why a more familiar term wasn’t used.

amacfie 27 Jan 2014 1:58 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Open thread, January 25- February 1
Would it change for particular behavior, e.g. clothes, dancing/gestures, language?

amacfie 30 Apr 2013 16:40 UTC
2 points
in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Good luck, Mr. Rationalist
it’s a question of live vs. dead metaphors

amacfie 17 Apr 2013 18:40 UTC
2 points
in reply to: randallsquared’s comment on: What truths are actually taboo?
I hear “er”, literally (rhotically), quite infrequently and I always assumed that people said it that way because of seeing “er” in written English and not knowing that it was intended to be pronounced “uh”; similarly, I’ve heard “arg” spoken by people who thought “argh” from written English was pronounced that way.